What's Changed

• Fix parsing of export with single character variable names by @GrahamCampbell in #599
• Fix formatting of Composer installation command by @xepozz in #589
• Improve parser and loader performance by @GrahamCampbell in #600
• PHP 8.6 support by @GrahamCampbell in #601
• Require the covariant option and result types by @GrahamCampbell in #612
• Improve option and result type precision by @GrahamCampbell in #613
• Fix memory-safety crash on invalid UTF-8 variable names by @GrahamCampbell in #602
• Make the putenv adapter null-byte safe by @GrahamCampbell in #603
• Remove quadratic value parsing by @GrahamCampbell in #604
• Resolve nested variables with fewer copies by @GrahamCampbell in #605
• Strip a leading BOM from string input by @GrahamCampbell in #606
• Improve diagnostics and messages by @GrahamCampbell in #607
• Add regression tests for existing behaviour by @GrahamCampbell in #608
• Stop comments from starting multiline values by @GrahamCampbell in #615
• Document the real parsing, nesting, comment, escape and validation rules by @GrahamCampbell in #609
• Resolve the strictness baseline entries at source by @GrahamCampbell in #614

New Contributors

• @xepozz made their first contribution in #589

Full Changelog: v5.6.4...v5.7.0

We announce the immediate availability V5.6.4.

Changes

• Pass explicit trim characters ahead of PHP 8.6 (416df70)

We announce the immediate availability V5.6.3.

Changes

• Add official support for PHP 8.5 (cd59ef0, 955e781)

We announce the immediate availability V5.6.2.

Changes

• Add new sponsor dotenvx

We announce the immediate availability V5.6.1.

Changes

• Add official support for PHP 8.4 (d31de17, a59a137)

We announce the immediate availability V5.6.0.

Changes

• Removed support for PHP 7.1 (f1f4ca5)
• Add official support for PHP 8.3 (f1f4ca5)

We announce the immediate availability V5.5.0.

New Features

• Add support for unicode variable names (1a7ea2a)

Changes

• Add official support for PHP 8.2 (b674e23)
• Made repository checks a little stricter (4c16545)

Bug Fixes

• Fix issue where line ending in =" is incorrectly marked as a multi-line start (f926695)

We announce the immediate availability V4.3.0.

Changes

• Add official support for PHP 8.2 (c349cad)
• Made repository checks a little stricter (3b56df1)

Bug Fixes

• Fix issue where line ending in =" is incorrectly marked as a multi-line start (67a491d)

We announce the immediate availability V5.4.1.

Bug Fixes

• Updated author homepages (2e93cc9)
• Cleaned up phpdoc types (264dce5)

We announce the immediate availability V4.2.2.

Bug Fixes

• Updated author homepages (2e93cc9)
• PHP 8.1 compatibility fixes (5b547cd)